care for a lil' necrophilia?

today was a day that shouldn't of worked but it did. i sat at home this morning and looked outside to this day of sunshine and loveliness and looked inside, where my books sat sky high ready for me to study. instead, i ditched the study and called up a friend to go and photograph in the city. i have film in my fisheye that needed to be finished, a new roll of film in the pentax k1000 and my digital slr that needed an outing. honestly, so did i. i have spent so much time cooped up inside recently with year 12, it is rediculous how much life it sucks from you.

when we got into the city, we discovered the zombie shuffle was on. for those of you that don't know, the zombie shuffle is when large numbers of melbournians (and foreigners, we don't discriminate) dress as zombies and 'shuffle' through the melbourne city. it was great fun to watch, and a little bit scary, as some of the costumes were very realistic. i got attacked by one guy who got his blood on my cardigan and jeans, but the camera was alright so thats all that matters. if you are reading this, you owe me new clothes haha. you can check out the photos on my flickr which i am now using. we got lost on the trains, scared by zombies and didn't do what we set out to do, but it was so much fun. now i have to make up for the study tomorrow, and it was so worth it :)

nb: if this is you in the photographs and you want them taken off, just let me know.

jusqu'a la prochaine fois.

trailer park excuses.

i am aware that i'm like a trailer park mother who leaves her children to play in the mud and then eventually leaves them on the front steps of a total strangers to go and do other things (strange but it's all i could think of). i know this, and yet i still have not been posting. i don't know, i guess i just needed a break from it, but i have also been crazy busy with school and a bit of travel these holidays. i am very thankful that libby stepped in while i was away and just reminded you all that i am in fact not dead but just away. so all the rollercoaster life started on the 25th march when i went on a conference down at the beach for school.

the conference was a one night stay at this lovely place on the beach where we could relax, surf, do circus skills and team building exercises. the rooms were lovely and the whole experience was great. i took a tonne of photos which was nice, as i hadn't touched the camera in a while. the thursday night was a dress-up dinner and i went with three other girls as the addams family. i was uncle fester, and getting the bald cap over my curly mass of hair proved to be quite difficult, but a head stocking and two bald caps later we got it on. needless to say i had a shocking headache from the pressure on my skull about an hour into the dinner.

we returned friday afternoon and i was exhausted, as we all were. i fell asleep as i walked in the door and slept most of saturday. then i spent sunday volunteering at a nearby festival. i was put on a stall that was making 'clay critters' with kids. i actually didn't do much at all, so it was a pretty boring day, but i got a cool t-shirt and a waterbottle with my name on it haha.

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M.I.A A.T.M

well well well, look what we have here. I should start off by telling you im lieing to you, not on purpose i assure you! You think im danielle dont you? Well now you have doubted yourself thinking "well maybe this isnt danielle" But right form the start you just assumed this was danielle, yes? Well then really you lied to yourself, right of the bat! This is libby. Not danielle. Im the artist currently known as darlingmakeup. I love danielle lots and lots and have been intrusted to inform you about her absense from blog-land!

Well, she has been such a busy lass i have trouble remembering where she is at any given point of time but ill do my best!

First i think she was playing on the lorn.. or in lorne?... AND now shes off in some hostel.. being xcore.

But i did let her know that upon her return she is doing a guest blog on MY blog so she thought it was best if i was the chosen one who let you precious things know of her where abouts. Its very nice of her to keep you all from worrying, really. bless.

So shes super cute. Shes like a jewish cupcake. Speaking of cupcakes. I was given one rule when doing this post and that was "dont make it pink" silly thing. Of course im making it pink! keke i joke. I did put a fave picture of mine that always makes me think of her. its the top one, see it? cute i know. LIKE HER! i should probs mention that the photos above were not taken by me but were found on weheartit.com The website is also super cute.

:)

I guess thats all hey, i mean thats all i was sent for.. just to imform and leave.

But im staying! hehe for a while at least, just untill i feel i have fulfilled my duties as a bestfriend to reallly entertain you pretty ones!

Actually, i am really tired. Yeh i actually might go!

Dont stress im sure ill be back, or you can check out my blog darlingmakeup.blogspot.com

Be safe!

Love Libby

long weeks and pointless scraps.

this week of school was only four days. why, then did it feel like it went for about ten days. it was the slightest bit painful. i had two sacs on thursday; for psychology and maths methods. i was stressing about methods and alright for psychology. I have no idea how i did. i had them one after another and it just felt like a huge blur. i walked out pretty dazed actually. hopefully it all went alright. art is really testing me, and i feel like i am doing nothing (probably because im not). i just feel sompletely uninspired to work and write in a folio. i am starting to think that maybe the whole folio subject was a mistake. oh well, time will tell.

over the holidays some of my friends are doing a duke of edinburugh trip for their gold awards and i was thinking of joining. i think it could be really good fun. not that i have even completed my bronze award but doesn't matter. besides that, the invites for eighteenth birthday partys have started and i think it is going to be a huge year for parties, which doesnt mesh well with study, but hey what are you gonna' do?! i am probably photographing a life drawing model on thursday but due to confidentiality and nudie bits they sure as hell will not be getting uploaded to anywhere. besides that, i am being consumed in homework that i must now attend to. have a wonderful weekend.

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

bright lights and long nights.

so last night was hot. really hot. it was a humid melbourne night and i think i can safely say not a lot of people across the city got sleep. my dog started barking at 2am and there were footsteps downstairs. me being paranoid put barking dog and footsteps together and came up with a robber in the house. it wasn't, it was just my mum. i had libby come and surprise me yesterday at school which was fantastic and she then stayed the night. we did a very impromptu photo shoot, and i wanted to experiment with natural light, so that was good. for those of you that haven't checked out libby's make up tutorials you should definitely get onto it. she calls it darling make-up and she is so so talented. she tried to do a tutorial on me while she was over but all that resulted from that were some bloopers, so i will post them up.

school has been pretty hectic, and i feel it is about to get a whole lot worse. i finished my english sac this week, but it was possibly the most embarrassing thing i have ever written. next week is maths and psychology, so this labour day long weekend will give me a bit of extra time to study for those two sacs. not much planned for the weekend. seeing the blind side tonight with friends and then going to alice in wonderland on monday. pretty excited. besides that not much is going on. i have become obsessed with dumplings again and eat them constantly. i hope you are all well and loving whatever you find yourself doing!

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

credible.

that is what my english teacher said my work was. i don't really know how to interpret that. we have our first assessed coursework on monday for english, and i don't know if i should be worried going in to it with a 'credible' level of work. oh well, cant sit around and over think it i guess. this week has been a killer. i have been so insanely irritable and i just want to be alone. probably just a stage, but it is giving me the shits.

just me and mum this weekend. were going to go for japanese tonight and then come home and watch a documentary i bought on annie leibovitz, so that should be nice. i don't really know what more to say. i don't feel like i am doing much except going to school, then coming home and doing homework. sending me a little up the wall i think. and to top it all off, the new episode of skins is loading so slowly i could rip my teeth out. joy.

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

school work and snuffles.

saturday today. i spent a restless friday night watching the olympic figure skating pairs and eating tofu. the thought of eating tofu again now makes me feel really nauseous. i actually don't know why i did it. it's not like it was the only thing in the house. i openly went to the supermarket and sought the stuff out. go figure. so third week of year 12 down, and i have already contracted my first sniffle and head cold as a result of excessive stress and a resultantly poor immune system. this is a real pain as i had planned to do homework and spent saturday night with some friends. i will still see them, but somehow i don't think it will be the same with congestion and a fever.

had house swimming this week. our house is yellow and dressed up as madeline. i broke out the new camera and instead of swimming, photographed and videoed the day. it was a really fun day and the atmosphere was fantastic. it's a bit strange to think that i will never go to a house swimming carnival again, but then again i hadn't been since year 9, so i can't get too nostalgic.

the photography has been put on the backburner, which makes me very upset indeed. there is just no time. i plan to do a photoshoot soon to add to my folio but at the moment i am struggling to find the time. hope that you are all well and are not suffering from an deficient immune system :)

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lino love.

today is florist day, a.k.a valentines day, a.k.a a hallmark holiday in order for the company to make copious amounts of money out of teenagers and young adults who think that they will be together 'forever'. Now, i have never been in love so i may be missing something and simply sound bitter, but i really don't understand the point of valentines day. it is a day where those who don't have someone either get bitter or upset and for those who do have someone, they generally get their hopes up too high and then get angry when their loved ones buy them the wrong thing. and that's just it, valentines day is put on in order to make you buy, and to make you feel guilty if you're not buying for that special someone. well, today my special someone was my art.

i have decided to do a lino print of one of the shots i took of my friend in the holidays. i spent far too long fine liner-ing the board. although the practical work is coming along nicely, i am yet to actually annotate my folio. if anyone could help me out with how to annotate that would be greatly appreciated.

the week was fairly hectic, and the weekend has been filled with headaches and family gatherings, as well as watercolours, bad tv and essays. i was in the shower today and realised that my stomach does this weird thing that i have never realised before. there's a lump on the left of my belly button that looks like i have a small baby living inside. doctor dad won't take any notice as he thinks that i am a hypochondriac. he is probably right. isn't it christmas that the miracle baby is supposed to arrive?

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

consumed.

week one down. and i already feel i am completely consumed by year 12. i have not left my house since friday when i got home from school. wow that's really bad when i think about it. it is now sunday, and although i have been networking socially online and had a friend sleepover friday night i cant help but feel impending insanity looming. i am going out today (thank the lord) but it's hard to enjoy it with the thought in the back of my head of the psych test i have tuesday or the folio work i have to do. i just feel like no matter how much work i do this year, i will never be able to sit back and sigh and say 'well good, my homework is completed'. that sucks. i guess i am going to have to learn to prioritise and not do some things.

we have house swimming soon and out house (yellow) wants to go as 'singing in the rain'. only problem is we can't find yellow raincoats or boots or those little hats. so that's a bit of a pain! we have started studying 'catcher in the rye' in english and although i hate the main character holden with a passion, i think it is going to be a good study and very suited to the time of our lives we all find ourselves in. maybe this is all an existential crisis. what a bloody inconvenient time for that!

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

camp.

i am a truly terrible person who neglects her blog when life gets busy. i feel like it has been ages, but it had only been about a week (a long time in blog land as i am sure libby will agree). but i am posting tonight as it is friday night and i finished my first week of year 12. i had my last first day and yesterday was our last school photo day. i don't feel that they went very well but never mind.

art camp from the 29-31 was amazing. the weather was beautiful and the camp food was surprisingly good. we were staying in little self contained cabins of 6 and were about 2 minutes walking distance from the beach. it was really nice to get friendly with my new camera and just generally take a lot of photos and soak up the amazing weather before we were to return to school and busy times.

can't really be bothered writing a lot more right now, as i have a lot to do tonight and over the weekend. i will try to post either tomorrow or sunday. i hope that whether you have started school again or are on holidays that you are happy and healthy.

jusqu'à la prochaine fois.